Town in South Australia
Finniss (formerly Queen's Own Town ) is a
settlement in
South Australia .
[8] It is on the
Victor Harbor railway line , a short distance north-east of where it crosses the
Finniss River .
The town was originally surveyed with the name Queen's Own Town (after the
Queens Own Regiment of Foot )
[9] in 1867 as the railway line was being extended from
Goolwa to
Strathalbyn . The name of the town was not changed to Finniss until 1940, although the adjacent railway station had already been named Finniss
[10]
[5] in honour of an early surveyor and the first
Premier of South Australia , Colonel
Boyle Travers Finniss .
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References
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"Search results for "Finniss, LOCB" with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Counties', 'Government Towns', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions' and 'Gazetter' " . Location SA Map Viewer . Government of South Australia. Retrieved 9 December 2018 .
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Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017).
"Finniss (suburb and locality)" . Australian Census 2016 .
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Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017).
"Finniss (suburb and locality)" . Australian Census 2016 QuickStats . Retrieved 28 June 2022 .
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"Finniss, South Australia (Postcode)" . postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 9 December 2018 .
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"Search results for "Finniss Railway Station" with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', "Government Towns' and 'Gazetteer' " . Location SA Map Viewer . Government of South Australia. Retrieved 9 December 2018 .
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"Fleurieu Kangaroo Island SA Government region" (PDF) . The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2017 .
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"Summary statistics STRATHALBYN RACECOURSE (nearest weather station)" . Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 9 December 2018 .
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"2905.0 - Statistical Geography: Volume 2 -- Census Geographic Areas, Australia, 2006" . Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 8 December 2009 .
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"Queen's Own Town" .
Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure . SA0057401. Archived from
the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2014 .
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"NEW TOWN NAMES APPROVED" .
The Chronicle . Vol. LXXXIII, no. 4, 728. South Australia. 1 August 1940. p. 13. Retrieved 31 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
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"Finniss" .
Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure . SA0023992. Archived from
the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2014 .